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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 85, Issue 23, Pages 5697-5699Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1831564
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The capping process of self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) grown on GaAs(100) substrates by molecular-beam epitaxy is studied by cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy. GaAs capping at 500 degreesC causes leveling of the QDs which is completely suppressed by decreasing the growth temperature to 300 degreesC. At elevated temperature the QD leveling is driven in the initial stage of the GaAs capping process while it is quenched during continued overgrowth when the QDs become buried. For common GaAs growth rates, both phenomena take place on a similar time scale. Therefore, the size and shape of buried InAs QDs are determined by a delicate interplay between driving and quenching of the QD leveling during capping which is controlled by the GaAs growth rate and growth temperature. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
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